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The Unitary Patent Package: Two Years On
This post is the final (fourth) part of a series of posts looking at what progress has been made in the two years or so since the two unitary patent regulations were adopted. As well as the material from the final post (The Unitary Patent), the material from previous posts (The Court, What Progress has there been?, What To Do Now?) is also included here into one bumper mega-post. For those of you that prefer something to print off a link is included at the bottom of this post to a PDF version of the article. (more…)
Unitary Patent Update: More from the UK’s UPC Taskforce & renewal fee discussions
Another UK UPC Taskforce email issued last week with the latest state of play on the implementation of the system. A couple of other unitary patent matters also caught the eye of IPcopy so here’s another round up of unitary patent bits and pieces. (more…)
Unitary Patent System: On the ‘Unconstitutional’ Misuse of Conflict-of-Law Rules – Max Planck Institute Paper Overview
We previously highlighted Dr Stjerna’s recent analysis of the unitary patent package (UPP) and the Spanish challenges. This time round it’s the term of Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and the paper “The European Unitary Patent System: On the ‘Unconstitutional’ Misuse of Conflict-of-Law Rules” which can be accessed here. A very brief set of points arising in the Drexl paper is summarized below and the reader is encouraged to read the entire paper (that at 20 pages is a fairly quick read).
Unitary patent updates from the UK’s UPC Taskforce & No Irish Referendum in 2015?
Things are relatively quiet in unitary patent land but an update email from the UK’s UPC Taskforce plopped into IPcopy’s Inbox last week with the latest state of play. A summary of the update email plus a quick look at Ireland’s planned referendums this year is below. (more…)
The Unitary Patent Package: Two years on, what to do now?
Back in December last year IPcopy started to take a look back at the unitary patent package and where we are in delivering this new unitary patent system. Our first “Where are we now?” post provided an overview of the Unified Patent Court itself and the second post looked at the progress there had been towards delivering the system. This entry asks what progress has there been on the road to getting the system up and running. Remember that although the original implementation date (end of 2014) was missed there has been some significant progress in delivering the new system. (more…)
The Unitary Patent, Spain and the EPO Boards of Appeal
The Advocate General released his opinions on the two Spanish challenges to the unitary patent system in November last year and in December there was much discussion online about the independence of the Boards of Appeal at the EPO.
Anyone curious about whether the developments at the EPO might be relevant to the Spanish challenges to the unitary patent are encouraged to head over to Dr Ingve Stjerna’s website (link below) and read his latest paper ” Unitary patent and court system – Advocate General’s Statements of Position: Superseded by reality”.
Dr Stjerna has kindly given permission for us top reproduce the introduction to his paper below: (more…)
The Unitary Patent Package: Two years on. What progress has been made?
Back in December last year IPcopy started to take a look back at the unitary patent package and where we are in delivering this new unitary patent system. Our first “Where are we now?” post provided an overview of the Unified Patent Court itself. This entry asks what progress has there been on the road to getting the system up and running. Remember that although the original implementation date (end of 2014) was missed there has been some significant progress in delivering the new system. (more…)
The UPC in London: a look at the location options
The long road to the UPC
In the last week or so discussion around the potential location of the UPC in London has surfaced again with news that the UPC Taskforce has informally approached a number of groups including IPLA, IP Federation, EPLAW and others for their views of a couple of potential sites for London’s UPC divisions. Full details of the two sites in question can be found here.
After reading the IPKat articles (1, 2) on the subject, IPcopy reached out to the UPC Taskforce and others to try and glean some additional information on the issue. This is presented below along with, for what it’s worth, this ipcopywriter’s personal views on the issue. (more…)
IPcopy’s Top 10 Posts from 2014
It’s nearly the end of 2014 which means that, along with the rest of the World+dog, it’s time to wheel out an End-of-Year ListTM of some description.
So here, in reverse order to try and build a modicum of excitement, are our Top 10 most read posts from 2014.
10. Unpacking the Trunki Judgement: Designs and Copyright with Magmatic vs PMS International
In at number 10 is a post from 2013 relating to the Trunki case in the High Court. Things have moved on now and we’ve had a Court of Appeal decision (see here) and more recently still the Supreme Court has given permission to appeal the Court of Appeal decision. Full details regarding the Supreme Court appeal can be found here but the “legal issue in this case relates to the significance attached to the fact that a graphical representation of a Community Registered Design shows no surface decoration”. (more…)
Unitary patent: News Nuggets (December 2014)
It’s very nearly Christmas but just before we all go off to stuff ourselves with turkey and overdo it slightly on the eggnog, here’s a quick update on some unitary patent news including a possible venue for the UPC in the UK. (more…)
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